No matter how you feel about the viewpoint of speech, you have to allow even the most despicable. Even the NeoNazi’s and KKK and other groups. If you don’t, you risk losing it for yourself because some day some government might decide they don’t like YOUR views and arrest you or disappear you into some ICE detention facility where no one knows where you are.
There is a lot of truth in this:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Many American Jews are horrified at what is happening, because they know more than most, what CAN easily happen to ANYONE, something Lisa either doesn’t comprehend or is willing to sacrifice because they aren’t “her” people. Or…she doesn’t even consider them people.
We endanger the ability to speak out when we allow the government to erode our First Amendment protections, writes a Jewish FIRE attorney.
www.jta.org
The other side of the government curtailing “unpleasant” free speech is it drives it underground where it can fester in hate-group echo chambers where it is never openly countered and where the act of suppression vindicates their claims of persecution. It’s easy to nurture monsters in those dark spaces.